Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 54
And she danced, and must dance, over fields and meadows, in rain and sunshine, by night and day; but at night it was the most fearful.
Who acts: Karen, sunshine · What happens: dance, be · To what, where: fields
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Karen, sunshine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 danced | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 danced | nsubj |
| 3 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dance | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dance | cc |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dance | aux |
| 7 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 danced | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fields | punct |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dance | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 meadows | cc |
| 12 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fields | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rain | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 rain | case |
| 15 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dance | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sunshine | cc |
| 17 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rain | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 night | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dance | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 day | cc |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 night | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 fearful | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 fearful | cc |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 night | case |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fearful | obl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fearful | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 fearful | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fearful | det |
| 30 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 31 fearful | advmod |
| 31 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 danced | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | Karen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dance | must | Karen not said here | fields and meadows | night | in rain and sunshine | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location | ||
| 3 | is | past | sunshine | night | fearful property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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